Scream if You Wanna Go Faster

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Scream If You Wanna Go Faster
Studio album by Geri Halliwell
Released	May 21, 2001
Recorded	2001
Genre	Pop
Length	46:55
Label	EMI
Producer(s)	Gregg Alexander
Professional reviews
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Geri Halliwell chronology
Schizophonic (1999)	Scream If You Wanna Go Faster (2001)	Passion (2005)

Scream if You Wanna Go Faster is the second solo album by British pop–soft rock singer Geri Halliwell. It was released by EMI Records on May 14, 2001 and was yielded by the UK number-one single "It's Raining Men". Although it was not as successful as her debut album Schizophonic, it reached a peak position of number five on the UK albums chart with first-week sales of 35,000 copies and a total of 155,000 becoming 127th best selling album of 2001 in the UK. In Spain and Mexico the album was certified Gold with sales of 50,000 copies on the latter.

Halliwell described the album as "bright and colourful";^[1] despite the poor sales in the UK (ensuring Gold status only) the album went on to sell 1.7 million copies Worldwide.

Contents 1 Album information 2 Track listing 3 B-Sides (Non-Album Tracks) 4 Personnels 5 International Charts 6 Notes

[edit] Album information

Scream if You Wanna Go Faster includes a cover version of the Weather Girls "It's Raining Men" (1983) and a continuation of the message Halliwell encouraged when she had been a part of the Spice Girls, "Girl Power", is featured on the song "Strength of a Woman". The album frequently moves away from Halliwell's pop origins as she had begun composing more ballads such as "Calling" and "Circles Around the Moon". Said Halliwell about Scream if You Wanna Go Faster, "There's deeper meaning underneath if you care and chose to look. Some of it is deep as puddle, some of it is a bottomless pit, like a well."^[1]

[edit] Track listing

1. "Scream If You Wanna Go Faster" (Halliwell/Nowels)
2. "Shake Your Bootie Cutie" (Alexander/Halliwell/Nowels)
3. "Calling" (Halliwell/Vettese)
4. "Feels Like Sex" (Ackerman/Halliwell/Watkins/Wilson)
5. "Circles Around the Moon" (Ackerman/Halliwell/Watkins/Wilson)
6. "Love Is the Only Light" (Elofsson/Halliwell/Lipson)
7. "Strength of a Woman" (Halliwell/Nowels)
8. "Don't Call Me Baby" (Halliwell/Watkins/Wilson)
9. "Lovey Dovey Stuff" (Ackerman/Halliwell/Watkins/Wilson)
10. "It's Raining Men" (Jabara/Shaffer)
11. "Heaven and Hell (Being Geri Halliwell)" (Elofsson/Halliwell/Lipson)
12. "I Was Made That Way" (Halliwell/Vettese)

[edit] B-Sides (Non-Album Tracks)

1. "Brave New World" (It's Raining Men B-Side)
2. "New Religion" (Scream If You Wanna Go Faster B-Side)
3. "Getting Better" (Scream If You Wanna Go Faster B-Side)
4. "Breaking Glass" (Calling B-Side)
5. "Destiny" (Calling B-Side)
6. "Au Nom De L'Amour" [French Version of "Calling"]

[edit] Personnels

• Geri Halliwell- Vocals
• Wayne Rodrigues- Drum programming, Protools editing
• Rick Nowels- Acoustic & Electric guitar, bass, keyboards
• Rusty Anderson- Electric guitar
• Charles Judge- Keyboards
• Greg Kurstin- Keyboards, Organ
• Danielle Brisebois- Vocal arrangement
• Peter John Vettese- Keyboards, Programming, Backing vocals
• Stephen Lipson- Programming
• Tracy Ackerman- Backing vocals

[edit] International Charts

Chart (2001)	Peak position
UK	5
Brazil	6
Mexico	7
Ireland	15
Italy	15
Austria	22
Germany	29
Canada	43
Australia	55
France	133

[edit] Notes